Syrian Civil War: News #3

Siege of Kweires will surely be studied by military historians for years to come.

Breaking the siege on Kweires airbase is a very significant victory.

Kuweires this might become the staging ground for an eastern, northern and western offensive. It remains to be seen how soon the attack choppers start getting based in the airbase and support the advancing units.

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/cheetah-forces-lift-the-three-year-long-siege-of-the-kuweires-military-airbase/

Cheetah Forces Lift the Three Year Long Siege of the Kuweires Military Airbase

According to a military source from the Syrian Arab Army, the total number of casualties for the Syrian Armed Forces from this Kuweires Military Airport offensive was 57 soldiers, with another 200+ wounded-in-action (WIA) – ISIS’ casualties could not be verified, but it is likely much higher than the Syrian Armed Forces’ death toll.

Ivan Sidorenko ‏@IvanSidorenko1 Nov 9
#Syria #Aleppo #Tiger_Force Commander for the "Fahad Group 6 Storming Group" was martyred liberating #Sheikh_Ahmed


RIP fallen bravehearts.

battlefield maps
Peto Lucem ‏@PetoLucem 1h1 hour ago

NEW MAP: After 3 years, #SAA was finally able to break #IslamicState siege of  #Kuweyres airbase. #Aleppo #Syria




Its good to see the SAA advancing along the lake in parallel. We might in coming week see a much wider area along the lake with SAA and probably a spearhead arising from this line to Raqqaa before year-end.

Dima wrote:..................................


Its good to see the SAA advancing along the lake in parallel. We might in coming week see a much wider area along the lake with SAA and probably a spearhead arising from this line to Raqqaa before year-end.

Lousy day at work but this news made it all better.

Right now every jihadi inbred will be charging to cut that line off, target rich environment for VKS.

Still a thin line, caution above all else is my tip...

Dima wrote:battlefield maps
Peto Lucem ‏@PetoLucem 1h1 hour ago

NEW MAP: After 3 years, #SAA was finally able to break #IslamicState siege of  #Kuweyres airbase. #Aleppo #Syria




Its good to see the SAA advancing along the lake in parallel. We might in coming week see a much wider area along the lake with SAA and probably a spearhead arising from this line to Raqqaa before year-end.

Actually it will be better to push in northeast to reach Kurds and cut ISIL from Turkey.

Murad Gazdiev ‏@MuradoRT 5h5 hours ago Syria

https://twitter.com/MuradoRT/status/664093642450149376

Leader of Ahrar al-Sham, jihadist group behind civilian massacre in #latakia, recently wrote for Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-deadly-consequences-of-mislabeling-syrias-revolutionaries/2015/07/10/6dec139e-266e-11e5-aae2-6c4f59b050aa_story.html

According to this SAA has started receiving Tochkas from Russia. Good news if true and Russian Army is retiring these from service so win-win.

http://charly015.blogspot.rs/2015/11/misiles-tochka-en-siria.html

Poor YahooNews, they kept publishing denials for hours but they finally had to cave in 30 minutes ago...

"Syrian army breaks IS siege of key Aleppo air base"

http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-army-breaks-siege-key-aleppo-air-afp-161628136.html

A group of soldiers penetrated IS lines west of the airport and reached government troops inside the base, firing into the air in celebration.

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Even during wartime middle eastern people use gunfire to celebrate things wasting ammo.

PapaDragon wrote:
According to this SAA has started receiving Tochkas from Russia. Good news if true and Russian Army is retiring these from service so win-win.

http://charly015.blogspot.rs/2015/11/misiles-tochka-en-siria.html

nah nah nah, you got it wrong, Syria had tochkas and sold them to Yemen or so wrote some motherf**** from Nato Digest.

Those OTR's going to ruin many moderate lives.

ISIS Mass Retreating from Several Areas in East Aleppo After the Fall of the Kuweries Airport
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-mass-retreating-from-several-areas-in-east-aleppo-after-the-fall-of-the-kuweries-airport/

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Looks like there's also been a SAA & Allies counterattack in Northern Hama...the "Tiger" Forces are apparently going there as well (no rest for them)

#Syria #Hama Pro rebel activist from Idlib - Militants lost everything they captures south of #Kafr_Nabudah to #SAA
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/664159978907897857

The Syrian Army has rolled back all of the terrorist advances in northern Hama since Sunday - Sqaylabiyah offensive fails
https://twitter.com/leithfadel/status/664167299482566656

Exclusive: Tiger Forces to Redeploy to Northern Hama
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/exclusive-tiger-forces-to-redeploy-to-northern-hama/

PapaDragon wrote:
According to this SAA has started receiving Tochkas from Russia. Good news if true and Russian Army is retiring these from service so win-win.

http://charly015.blogspot.rs/2015/11/misiles-tochka-en-siria.html

According to military commentator Viktor Murakhovski (vim at Otvaga) a lot of gear is being brought over via the Syrian Express. He believes new units are being formed in the rear. In his estimate it will take a minimum of 45-60 days to get them ready before they can join the fight, although some of the equipment has already been spotted in some videos.

Northern Hama in a bit more detail....some of these claims have been reported by pro jihadi accounts as well so likely legit

#SAA Counter Attack in North #Hama recapturing Tell al-Sakhr & The Grain Silos , Al Mughayr is under SAA control


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Earlier Latakia was hit by 2 rockets killing 22 civilians and wounding over 60...pics in link

2 rockets fell on #Latakia city, Al-Awqaf neighbourhood and near Tishreen university, martyrs & wounded reported
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/664046659773468672

The advance to Kuwaires...the second half of video is graphic



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Khan Shaykhun (North of Morek) under heavy bombardment...lots of snackbarring
Location: http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=35.433333,36.633333&z=12&t=M&marker0=35.433333,36.633333,Khan%20Shaykhun

2 rockets fell on #Latakia city, Al-Awqaf neighbourhood and near Tishreen university, martyrs & wounded reported

The culprits

Ming Airbase or mingbath forgot the exact name.. it was reported by Lebanese
Military experts commentators that they Syrian Army hold it for 3 years.. under siege..
but in the end the terrorist finally captured it.. the question is.. how you consider such
even a failure or a major success for Syrian army.. losing a military base?

According to the lebaness expert with information close to the Syrian command..
the SAA lost ~20 soldiers defending the base.. and the Rebels lost 3,500.
So who really was the winner and who really was the loser ? The Military base did not
helped the Rebels in any way since they dont have airforce and the SAA removed anything
of use for them... Stories like this is important to remember.. because this is exactly the kind
of battles that Syria needs to provoke to achieve more with less..

So if you ask me.. there was no Rush for Kuwaitires Military base to take it.. i will have just delayed it its capture for a week or two if big waves of terrorist continues assaulting it. Better to fight them out of their underground bunkers and attract them in numbers than to figure out where they are hidding in a city. because is far easier to fight on defense when you have heavily fortified your zone and dig trenches. than in offense that you need to deal with mines and terrorist can hide in residential zones ,negating the airforce advantage that you will have had the terrorist move to the Open field and exposed without any defense.

Soldiers hat entered the base counted 314 defenders. At the beginning there were about 500-600 of them so 200-300 must have died. OF course for a 35 months long siege this is a modest number - these 500 soldiers inficted much higher losses on the enemy (200 ISISmen were killed in a single assault in October) and kept a much more numerous force tied for almost 3 years.

Cyberspec wrote:The advance to Kuwaires...the second half of video is graphic



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Khan Shaykhun (North of Morek) under heavy bombardment...lots of snackbarring
Location: http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=35.433333,36.633333&z=12&t=M&marker0=35.433333,36.633333,Khan%20Shaykhun

2 rockets fell on #Latakia city, Al-Awqaf neighbourhood and near Tishreen university, martyrs & wounded reported

The culprits

Fucking Ace, finally the Russians got their way and are directly levelling Khan Shaykun instead of hitting middlemen.

If they were evacuated by air, then the estimate of 35 SAA killed is not unrealistic at all.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:If they were evacuated by air, then the estimate of 35 SAA killed is not unrealistic at all.

They lost 35 this year alone. Let's not get all unicorns and buttercups. The ISIS attack that almost overran the base earlier in October killed 14 when they slammed two VBIED's, unfortunately that also collapsed the building they were targeting, which closed the gap/

And how many men did ISIS lose for every failed attack? The terrain around the base is perfect for the defender - flat terrain all around, everu soldier approaching the base becomes a sitting duck.

KoTeMoRe wrote:

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:If they were evacuated by air, then the estimate of 35 SAA killed is not unrealistic at all.

They lost 35 this year alone. Let's not get all unicorns and buttercups. The ISIS attack that almost overran the base earlier in October killed 14 when they slammed two VBIED's, unfortunately that also collapsed the building they were targeting, which closed the gap/

So where are now the bashing to the Rebels/US commandos for failing in 2 years to take control
of a surrounded military base? Isn't that incompetence? Why when the SSA lose a city ,there is major bashing of their failure.. but when they hold a place for 2 years after waves and waves
of thousands mercenaries attack they still hold it?

Now you are claiming it was an "almost win"..for the American paid and armed mercenaries..     And the Syrian Army should be the one blamed for not taking it earlier.


About the casualties many of the SAA in the miltiary airport that were wounded earlier were evacuated.. so the casualties possibly are in the less than 100 .. while at the same time the American mercenaries have to be in the thousands ,since they all attack in massive waves after
several suicide bomb attacks in trucks, and such tactic are not cheap in mercenaries loses.

a US mechanized regiment would have taken the base in one day. Do not equate rebel militants to NATO soldiers, this is stupiditty like from earth to the moon. The fact that many militants take money from KSA and Turkey does not mean they fight exclusively for that money.

Nonetheless, how do you imagine the battle to have a different outcome? Like I said, ground around Kweires is perfect for defence. There is no way to break the line of deefence except by sending wave upon wave of guys on pick-ups - which is what IS did.

JohninMK wrote:

JohninMK wrote:

whir wrote:

Solncepek wrote:When will we see russian jets and choppers in Kweires Airbase?

Unnecessary risk, fuel is cheaper than lives and machines.

Although it will probably be increasingly safe to operate from there, especially the Mi-24s, the fly in the ointment would be logistics. Fuel and munitions etc would need to be brought from the coast, vulnerable trucks.

As you say, much better to have more minutes of flying time.

Looks like the Mi-24s are already being dispersed around the country. From yesterday's Russian MoD briefing

In the province of Daraa a training camp belonging to the group "Al-Nusra" was destroyed. In the southern province of Hasaka, a renewed joint operation of Syrian troops and Kurdish groups was announced in the Villages of Tal Serena and Rajm al-Sayyaran. US officials have said that Russia has expanded its area of ​​application of combat helicopters to a large part of the territory of Syria. Now, according to their data, Russian Mi-24 and Mi-8 are not just taking off from an air base in the province of Latakia, but also from the other three air bases in central and northern Syria.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman at a regular press briefing, informed a significant change in the tactics of terrorist groups throughout the territory of Syria. As noted by Major-General Igor Konashenkov, "gangs are not as aggressive as they were a month ago. Today, terrorists are trying to conduct flexible defensive tactics, regularly moving and dodging punches as the Syrian government troops and the Russian airforce seek and destroy."

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/russian-mod-terrorists-tactics-in-syria.html

I agree, last time I saw Russian Mi-24s were in Homs and in Aleppo near Khannaser